Advanced Studies in Sustainable Cultivation and Management on Fruit Trees
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Fruit Production Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 February 2024) | Viewed by 5617
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fruit physiology; light; water; fruit tree crops; fruit quality
Interests: irrigation; fruit tree physiology; kiwifruit
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fruit tree ecosystems are known to require intensive use of resources, and production protocols need to tackle problems related to climate change. In fact, increasing temperatures, extreme weather events, and water limitation in terms of quantity and quality are impacting fruit production worldwide. These two big factors can cause high economic instability for growers. Orchard management future practices will need to mitigate these effects and limit the use of resources while maintaining satisfactory harvest and quality.
The purpose of the Special Issue on “Advanced Studies in Sustainable Cultivation and Management on Fruit Trees” is to present studies providing solutions to environmental constraints and to their consequences on tree and fruit physiology. Improvement and mitigation strategies related to water limitation and quality, heatwaves, soil and leaf nutrition, excessive light, training systems and rootstocks, and alien pests are welcome. Hence, innovations and techniques that can increase the efficiency of fruit tree physiology, to increase the sustainability of orchard systems, are welcome. Papers that also give insights into internal mechanisms responding to these stresses, such as sink-source relationships, carbohydrate dynamics, secondary metabolism, and molecular biology, will be highly appreciated. Papers or reviews describing the global situation of orchard practices and management, and future perspectives and directions, for higher sustainability in fruit production are more than welcome.
Dr. Alexandra Boini
Dr. Giulio Demetrio Perulli
Prof. Dr. Gregory Reighard
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change
- mitigation strategies
- orchard management
- orchard resilience
- orchard efficiency
- fruit trees
- fruit production
- fruit quality
- yield
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